Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies. Read full biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti → 1 2 Ctrl → I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. 0 Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. 0 Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. 0 Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high... → 0 Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling... → 0 Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. 0 We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. 0 And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington... → 0 The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. 0 I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go... → 0 We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. 0 Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. 0 It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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22 quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti